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...that Hackney, 59, a graduate of Vanderbilt and Yale and a distinguished historian, is less than highly qualified. Before joining Penn, he got high marks as the president who revitalized Tulane University in New Orleans. Previously, he had been a bright light on the Princeton faculty, rising to the position of provost...
Stephen Glass, executive editor of the campus newspaper the Daily Pennsylvanian, maintains that in matters of free speech Hackney "very much stands up for complaints from the left but not from the right." In April almost all 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian were taken and destroyed by black students protesting "blatant . . . perpetuation of institutional racism" by the newspaper -- specifically the views of a right-wing columnist -- and the university at large. The paper declared it was "betrayed" by Hackney's reaction, a bland statement that "two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict...
Other events have split the Penn campus. In 1988 Hackney defended a campus visit by hatemongering Louis Farrakhan. In April, when gay advocates chalked sexually explicit and antireligious phrases on the main campus sidewalk, maintenance workers were forbidden to wash off the graffiti in the interest of gay free speech...
...most publicized incident occurred last January but, with a little help from conservatives, escalated into national news after Hackney's nomination. Israeli-born freshman Eden Jacobowitz was charged with racial harassment and threatened with probation for yelling, "Shut up, you water buffalo!" at a group of boisterous black women students outside his dorm. He denied any bigotry in the odd epithet, pointing out that it is Hebrew slang for an inconsiderate fool. On May 24, as the campus churned over the controversy, the women dropped the charges, but only after blasting the school for injustice...
...wife Lucy Durr Hackney served on the Children's Defense Fund with the First Lady and, like her is a lawyer-advocate for children. Washington insiders link Hackney's appointment to the Lucy-Hillary connection. Indeed, the First Lady may be Hackney's most unshakable asset. Amid the "water buffalo" controversy, Hillary Rodham Clinton journeyed to Philadelphia to deliver the commencement address at Penn...